A few photos from around the caviary

This is little Harry at nearly 6wks old. He's a fluffy little dude!

This was Harry's sister just before she left for her new home last weekend. She was even fluffier!!

This is 'Ohana The Lucky One' and his little buddy.

And these are some photos from the barn-hutch. The babies are all old enough to make their way up and down the ramp now, so all the mums and bubs live in one big community. It's so good to see them all interacting and 'sharing'! lol

Mary had... three little pigs!

Just as the sun was setting yesterday afternoon, our beautiful dark-eyed-white peruvian sow 'Mary' gave birth to three large, fluffy, gorgeous little alpaca bubs! I was in love the second I held those wiggly little bodies up to my face. I couldn't wait to take day-light photos of them this morning.

We have Arthur - the little boy, Arwen and Audrey - the little girls. How amazing are they going to look with those curls grown out!

baby updates

Harriet and Dante's bubs are now 3.5wks old. The boys have moved into the bachelor pad with Boris and Axel (and there were no dramas thankfully, everyone snuggles up together at night and there is hardly any tiffs). The photo above is 'Harry' at 2weeks, and below is him at 3weeks.

This is the little lady of the litter at 3 weeks. She'll be off to her new home next weekend.

And this little guy did NOT want photos! These were the clearest pics I could get of him. He's a stunning little boy and will have a peruvian-ish coat when grown up (he does have a number of extra rosettes but not enough to take him from peruvian to sheba). We will likely have this little guy available for adoption in a few weeks, but for now I'm just holding on to him until I have another boy to pair him with as I don't want him going out on his own.

Beautiful Boris

Beautiful Boris is approaching his first birthday - and celebrated with a pretty new hair bow! (lol - I don't actually think he liked his new look very much. Luckily we only kept him like this long enough to snap a pic!)

New bubs!

We knew one of our gorgeous girls was due soon, but I didn't realise how soon! Only two days after setting her up in the maternity suite we came home to find three stunning little bubs.

I had expected to see curly-coated bubs (mum is our long-curly-rosetted girl 'Harriet', and dad is our lilac alpaca 'Dante'), but we got three straight-coated sheba-type bubs instead. The only explaination for this is the old different-origin-curl-gene issue that I've witnessed a few times in the past. I was under the impression that cavies with 'foreign' curl genes are fairly rare in Australia due to our stick no-import laws... but this is getting rediculous!

These three will be stunning regardless though, and will all grow long straight coats that stick up in all directions. The bub at the top of the page is 'Harry'. He is lilac with a splash of gold and white.

The bub below is 'Hayley'. She is lemon agouti, cream and white. And the bub below her is 'Ham' - he is also a tri-agouti, but with a darker gold agouti base.

Mumma Harriet with Harry. And below we have daddy pig - 'Dante'.

The weather is really starting to cool down here in Brisbane now too. So we've whipped up a few new piggy bedding items. We're also taking part in an online 'Pet Palooza' show this weekend for makers of all things pet related - and we have a few handmade items available there as well if you'd like to check it out. A lot of the bigger art dolls have been adopted already, but most of the bedding is still available.

Story time!

Miss 5 decided Axel might appreciate being read a story. I love the book she chose... lol

Afternoon tea and guinea pig plushie kits

I was giving the girls in the barn cage their afternoon tea today, and Quinn, Eloise and Curly Sue all lined up nicely around their capscium - so I decided to snap a quick pic. It looks like Eloise is smiling! They do enjoy their capsicum here. Some pigs more then others - but we try to include it every week as it is so rich in vitamin C that a little goes a long way to providing the pigs with their essential requirements. Fresh green grass everyday also helps :)

And later on in the evening I was asked to set up a kit listing for our exclusive 'realistic guinea pig' plushie design. We currently have three fabric options in the guinea pig kits - but if you're a little more quirky and would like to make a non-realisticly coloured cavy plushie just let us know and we can set up a custom kit just for you :)